Creative writing: poetry and prose non-fiction; contemporary and Modernist poetry; text in participatory and public art situations; poetry and science; the poetry of rubbish, ecology and place; creative writing and the visual arts.

British Romanticism, especially William Blake; Gothic fiction; the history of popular fiction; literature and politics in the long 18th century; occultism and conspiracy theory; the supernatural in literature

18th- and 19th-century literature; relationship between literature, history and politics in 19th-century Britain; public/private selves in Romantic and post-Romantic literature; life-writing; histories of the archive; women’s writing and feminist biography

South Asian Writing in English, Black and Asian British Writing, Indian Popular Cinema/Bollywood, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Caribbean Literature, the Twentieth Century Novel, World Literatures, Globalisation and Transcultural Studies.